Madrigal

Everything is owned by billionaires. The health care system is owned by billionaires. Are you saying people should refuse health care that improves their lives for that reason?

Fix the system. Don’t shit on people trying to survive it.

Nah. I once used AI to help refine a comment and make a meaningful contribution to a (non-AI) discussion. It was a valid use of a tool. I was honest and up front about it. But that didn’t matter. I got completely dogpiled by the entire community. They went as far as finding me and sending abusive messages on other platforms. Not one person even thought to address the actual point I was making on the OP.

So yeah. That’s Lemmy on AI. Frankly, I’ve lost so much respect for the community here based on its feral mindset that even Reddit is starting to look appealing again.

As for calling me a fanboy, part of my job involves AI governance. It’s my job to understand the limitations and the risks posed by the tech. To ensure it’s used legally and ethically. And to reign in over-enthusiastic execs. For the most part, I end up advocating for my company to not adopt AI tools.

So you really couldn’t be further from the truth.

Also…

ad hominem

the only downvotes I get are from ai fanboys who don’t like hearing their favorite chatbot is a grift led by billionaires

LOL. Good one.

There’s no room for rational discussion about AI on Lemmy. I learnt that one a while ago.

And I never said I liked it. That’s just an assumption you’ve made, based on nothing.

There’s that screeching sound again.

Good lord. Someone on an anti-AI forum indicating a vague understanding of the issue rather than just screeching incoherently?

Never thought I’d see it.

I liked MATE when I last used it. I believe that’s based on GNOME 2.

Agreed. I’ve recently switch from Win10 to Gnome 3 briefly (LOL) then to KDE.

Some stronger selling points would be:

• The KDE experience is exactly like Windows. Maybe more so.
• It works out of the box with my hardware better than Windows did.
• It offers more UI customisation, in a pretty straightforward, unintrusive and (mostly) intuitive way.
• It’s more consistent and coherent than Windows, especially when it comes to ‘control panel’ stuff.
• Way less crapware, such as graphics drivers that come with massively bloated management apps, or a thousand different software updaters running at once.

Technically easy. A baseline wiki is not a particularly complicated application.

The challenge, as always, is shifting the user base, especially content writers, when starting from a small knowledge base. You would need to offer a significantly better experience - or KYM would need to suffer serious enshittification - to have a real hope of doing that.

IMO the one feature that might make an alternative stand out is contextual knowledge surfacing. In other words, if a meme is mentioned in content somewhere, the explanation is automatically made available to the reader without needing to leave the current site/page. Kinda like how some glossary systems work, or Viva Topics before MS stupidly killed it.

“On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.” - Charles Babbage

This isn’t new. Reddit mods have been like this for a decade or more. And the admins let them get away with it because they get free labour from them.

Today it’s immigrants and trans people.

Bonus points if you use an LLM to generate said illegible nonsense.

For web browsing? No.

I miss mid-90s IRC. That was far more social than any ‘social’ media I’ve experienced since.

“Shitto” is a real name in Zimbabwe.

Wouldn’t want them anywhere that is prone to earthquakes - the entire Pacific rim, for example.

YouTube’s algorithm is weirdly prone to fixation, and quite hard to train out of habits.

My bane is ASMR videos. I watched a couple of vids on physiotherapy a few years back and that’s it. The ASMR crowd had been all through the comments and I guess that was enough for the algorithm to make the link. Now it won’t let go no matter how many times I hit “not interested”.

I refuse to look up anything food related in case I end up with mukbang all through my feed.

Don’t Google that, by the way. You’re better off ignorant.

The bit I really like it how it established hyperspace tracking as a thing WAAAAY before TLJ.

Reddit has been employing all kinds of sketchy shit for years - including some fairly invasive behavioural fingerprinting techniques. And a lot of it has been abused by “powermods” who figured out how to game it.

Good chance these people simply said something that someone didn’t agree with and got flagged by some prick with a runaway ego.

Not a caver, but I’ve watched a few spelunking vids online. The attitude of most - at least on camera - seems to be that you respect the cave and tackle it as-is rather than trying to modify it.